leakycap

I can anecdotally say you didn't add to the conversation with this link, so maybe you are one of the folks who do not have anything to say to another, as Mr. Krugman so eloquently put it.

Whatever you say, boss! I'll never mention it again, my apologies.

> I get fed up and move to a computer.

Big screens can be addicting, too - but not being portable helps it be less available 24x7 and makes the problem less visible to those around you.

Do you track your screen time using an accurate/unbiased method like an app? Big screen wasted time may be much higher than you assume.

While reading this yarn about the Varangians, the Mongols, and the "Finno-Ugric substrate," a modern, unhinged empire is writing its current bloody chapter in real time.

We aren't living through an intellectual exercise about "The Third Rome," and it feels like distraction or misdirection to waxing poetic abut five-century-old antecedents while blood runs down the streets of Kyiv and Kharkiv.

If I was going to give my energy to writing about a murderous empire, I wouldn't shine up their history with gilded theory on why the attacker felt entitled to attack. Turn the lens where the people are dying and being attacked - today, as I write this.

Career advice from Reddit is funny. Career advice from X tells me way more about you than you probably meant to share. Oof.

> (one of them tried to charge me $75 for a $3 capacitor)

How much do you upcharge people for your services and "products" (often virtual)? What is acceptable to you?

If you had to have a physical copy of the apps you work with, in your truck, had to buy them in advance, pay shipping, store them, then take the right copy with you to a client's house. If they paid $3 would you be OK with $30? $60? You seem incensed with $75

I used to work retail. Belkin cables were under $2 each for the store, they sold them for $39-$69 depending on what it was.

If you work in a professional role, your markup on services (almost no costs involved) and products (usually very low costs) is probably many many thousands of times more than the hardworking tradesperson you think ripped you off when they were solving an issue you needed help with and had the expertise, time, and parts to help.

> So it's not unreasonable for OP to expect to start at this level, and work their way up to $150k over the next 5-7 years.

So you're actually saying that OP xpecting $150,000 now, given that is what they're expecting (and elsewhere they scoff at $200k), is out of touch.

But you feel compelled to say some people, with years of experience, make more? Yeah. That's sensical - but it doesn't apply now unless you think giving advice 5-7 years in advance is helpful when someone is looking for a job now.

> Franework [sic] ... they are for from the best [sic] ... from what I read

That's a lot of typos to just repeat someone else's first hand experience you read about. I guess I should have opinions on Airbus vs. Boeing, too -- mind you, I've never flown a plane, but you know, I've read some stuff online so I'm basically an expert.

Do you think moving a town is similar to child labor? What environment/culture do you live in where you do not want to stand up for children and would rather child labor not be brought up? Do you benefit from child labor?

This has felt true for a long time now, so I don't doubt it.

Writing is time-intensive for humans and just an electric bill for AI-writing services.

Yeah, I totally hear you. People are always like "please, make sure my desktop computer only uses 30 watts of energy" and "I'm an eco-gamer, please turn off the RGB lights and let's all play the game on eco/low graphics settings, kumbaya"

It's much higher in some categories, but in general across gameplay the 2080 is only about 20% slower than the 5060 in otherwise similar systems. NVIDIA's 3000 series was mostly worse than the 2080 except the 3090, which itself is still is incredible compared to today's 5xxx cards